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The Morton & Dinah Danseyar Family

Enfield, CT · EIN 06-1359689. Reported 33 grants totalling $495,720 to 15 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$4,000median grant
$495,720granted, 2021-2025
15recipients, as named on its returns
58%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,563,108assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Morton & Dinah Danseyar Family did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $4,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $151,800. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
4 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
14 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Friends of the Israeli Defense ForcesBoynton Beach, FL$358,800552025
American Friends of Magen David AdomPalm Beach Gardens, FL$65,500222022
Capital City ConcertsMontpelier, VT$25,000552025
Jewish National FundBoca Raton, FL$15,000222022
Middle East ForumPhiladelphia, PA$9,000332023
David Horowitz Freedom CenterSherman Oaks, CA$7,000222022
Education Bridge ProjectBoston, MA$5,000112021
Humane Society of Manatee CountyBradenton, FL$3,250332023
Central Vermont Humane SocietyMontpelier, VT$3,150332023
Good Beginnings of Central VermontMontpelier, VT$2,000222022
Ethan Allen InstituteSouth Burlington, VT$1,000112023
Wusf RadioTampa, FL$500112022
Palm Grove Mennonite ChurchSarasota, FL$300112024
University of South FloridaTampa, FL$120112025
Charity NavigatorSaddle Brook, NJ$100112021

9 of 15 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 58%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 18 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
6 grants
International Affairs
5 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202111$63,000$4,000
202210$79,500$3,500
20236$73,000$1,000
20243$123,300$5,000
20253$156,920$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

89% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Florida
$443K
Vermont
$31K
Pennsylvania
$9K
California
$7K
Massachusetts
$5K
New Jersey
$100

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program5 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc4 shared recipientsThe Chicago Community Trust4 shared recipientsThe Vermont Community Foundation3 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Morton & Dinah Danseyar Family's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 1699 King Street Ste 406, Enfield, CT, 06082. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 06-1359689 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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